Trust DigiCardServices.com for your custom ID cards In addition to the functionality, reliability and ease of use you expect, our employee ID card systems deliver the security you need to protect your business from both internal and external threats. This is of utmost importance in today's security-conscious corporate environment. With our systems, it's easy to create custom ID cards that are easy to authenticate, yet very difficult to duplicate or forge. You'll create an image database for your photo ID badges, and such a database is great for a variety of uses, too. Best of all, streamlining your operations saves time and money. Many companies report this cost-efficiency as the best benefit of such an employee ID card system. Smart card photo ID badges What exactly is a smart card? In the simplest terms, it's a card with an imbedded computer chip programmed to store information or execute tasks. What's so great about smart cards? Well, they're small, yet hold, transmit and encrypt massive amounts of data. They're tamper-resistant, which is increasingly important in today's age of security and privacy threats and requirements. And, of course, smart cards easily fit on the surface of typical photo ID badges. Data transmission is made either by direct contact with a reader or by waving it a few inches in front of a contactless interface (hence the terms "contact" and "contactless" smart cards--you'll be probably hearing more about them in the future.) Such custom ID cards are almost limitless in function, adding security and versatility that was never before possible.